Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles ...

Dame Cleo Laine, the singer and actress who has died aged 97, was not only the best jazz vocalist that Britain ever produced, but was also one of the most versatile and enduring musicians from any ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The 7th annual Johnson City Jazz Festival is underway, with organizers saying this year is bigger and better than ever as it spans six days across multiple venues. This ...

Be sure to check out our full 2025 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area. It’s an unpredictable summer, folks. Some find escape in music festivals ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- Door County is prepping for a jazzy summer with an inaugural music festival. Door County will host its first-ever Jazz Festival at multiple locations in August 2025. There will ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It was Oscar's night on Sunday. Oscar Tshiebwe's, that is. The Utah Jazz two-way forward nearly got in the way of a must-lose game, recording career bests in both points (16) and ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

On a personal note, this is unlike any "best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and ...